Bodmer Papyri
Collection of ancient manuscripts from 200 AD until the 6th century / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about 22 papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952, purchased by Martin Bodmer. For a list of the 58 papyri in Bodmer's collection, see List of Bodmer Papyri.
The Bodmer Papyri are a group of twenty-two papyri discovered in Egypt in 1952. They are named after Martin Bodmer, who purchased them. The papyri contain segments from the Old and New Testaments, early Christian literature, Homer, and Menander. The oldest, P66 dates to c. 200 AD. Most of the papyri are kept at the Bodmer Library, in Cologny, Switzerland outside Geneva.
In 2007, the Vatican Library acquired Bodmer Papyrus 14–15 (known as P75 and as the Mater Verbi (Hanna)) Papyrus.